News Scrapbook 1980-1981

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French Parlor, Founders Hall, Umver• b the Alcala Trio, including Marior1e s1ty of SD) Free performance y In and Father '<1colas Reveles on Ha.rt on cello. He~ry Kolar on v10 ' • piano, 12J5p.m. Wednesday, · NOONTIME CONCERT (

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USD continues its program of noontime concerts each Wednesday in March in the French Pa~lor, F?unde~ Hall, at 12:15 p.m. This Wednesday, Lonn Gethne will direct the Brass Ensemble.

here April 4. From left are Casey Olsen, Matt Stehly, Brian Hamilton. Todd Clarke, Rick Delphia, Bob O'Connell, Mark Oemcke and Mitch Folson (See Story, F-8). - Tribune photo b:::y..:.B::.:o:::.b~R::e:::.: dd::::.m::::g'.,___~~~•

P Ll1 'G THEIR OW ' WEIGHT - Members ~f the University of an Diego's var 1ty heavyweight rowing crew work ou~ on the waters of M1 10n Bay in preparation for the Crew Classic, which will be held

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Ninth annual Crew Classic to attract top universities, clubs from across U,5, By NA ·cv CLEELA D fall, then Monday through Saturday morn- They crawl like centipedes across Mis- ings in the spring. Monday, Wednesday and sion Bay, every mornmg of the week from Friday afternoons, they lift weights. Tues- 6 to 8:30. day and Thursday afternoons, they run.'' Eight oarsmen squatting in a sleek Rowers are rewarded only with fitness wooden hull pull their Jong blades through and a sense of accomplishment. There are the water, and the vessel creeps forward no rowing scholarships at State, nor are Half a dozen crews are on the water, and there any at USD or UCSD, which also havt! hovenng around them are motor boats crews. In fact, the rowers pay for their seat from which coaches shout criticism and en- in the liull. <'OUragement. "We figure the kids who are very good ''Ifs your ba 1c coaches panic lime," said spend about $800 a season. They pay $150 ztec Coach Doug Perez •·Three weeks to apiece for dues to the Mission Bay Rowing the big one" Association, then about $100 apiece for The big one, m San Diego at least, is the miscellaneous things like gas, about $50 on Crew Classic, slated this year for April 4. uniforms, then $350 for transportation to In its eight years, the event has grown to the nationals. national stature. Now H is considered one "That's for the bare basics. We go back of the top five. up there with the Eastern there and sleep on the floor. It's real dedi- Sprints. the International Rowmg Associa- cation. The kids amaze me." twn's Champion hips, the Western Sprints Competitive West Coast rowing starts and the Pac-10 Conference Championships. tht weekend. and SDSU will be going after forty univer ities and rowmg club will 'CLA Saturday morning on the same be repr ented here. 1 cludmg all O course lo be taken April 4 - from the Cat- 1 t 10n--l nrd I aei•aw.L:I'•= .. ran to the hia hat gives local championship. won in 1979. (Official a earns two ·eekends of actual competition celled the Cla sic last year after the y before the Classic. became badly polluted) For he fir t time, In contrast. East Coast crews are still Yale will be among the contenders this surrounded by ice-clogged waters and vear won't be out racing until the Classic. A Crew racing began when those two competitive edge for the West? Not neces- schools battled it out m 1852, et this will sarily. The big Ea tern schools - such as be their fir t encounter on the West Coast. Harvard and Yale - have elaborate indoor The Clas ic as much a social event as an rowing machines, which allow coaches to athletic o , promi e to be bigger than watch rowers in action close-up. ever thi year. Local teams want to ''They've been rowing on machines all ready winter," said USD Coach Steve Estes. The Crew Cl c Is critical," said When they finally get to the water, they're z who took over a defunct rowmg pro- excited. It's a change, and it really gets gram our years ago and came up with one them pum up" of the nation's top 20 teams Perez was 'fraditio •, a w scho~s have domi- n med coach of the U.S. nahonal light- nated rowmg e\ents for decades. Universi- weight crew last month m recognition ol ty of Washington, University of Wisconsin, that succe:; · University of California at Berkeley, Yale He works his rowers hard. "People don't and Harvard. Perez said he hopes to edge believe this," he said "but we row Monday his team into that lineup at the Classic next through Friday mormngs all through the month.

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Schillings, Bill Meyer and Mike McDaniel. Forty universities and clubs will compete here April 4. - Tribune photo by Bob Redding

upcoming Crew Classic. From left, are coxswain Nina Lipetz, Don Miner, Scott Dillard, Bob Dickson, Carl Weymann, Steve Funke, Chuck

THE LONG PULL- San Diego State's rowing crew, ranked among the top 20 teams in the nation. works out on Mission Bay in prepa ation for the

BLADE TRIBUNE ,o Seminar Focus Is Electronic Media SAN DIEGO - A seminar on "Religion and the MAR 2 0 1981

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Jewish Committee, the Na- tional Conference of Chris- tians and Jews, and the San Diego County Ecumenical Conference. Keynote speakers will be: the R~v. George C. Conklin, associate professor of communication and media studies, Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; and the Rev. Harry Hollis, Ph.D., associate executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission in Nashville, Tenn.

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Electronic Media" will be held at the University of San Diego, Monday, March 23, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. in Salomon Lecture Hall, De- Sales Hall. Pre-registration is re- quested, and a fee of $5 is charged. For details, call USD at 293-4585. The seminar is sponsored by USD's Office of Continu- ing Education, the San Diego chapter of the American

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Session on Behavior Disorders A symposium on behavior and learning disorders will be held April 3 and 4 in De Sales Hall at the University of San Diego. The focus will be on realistic approaches to teaching children with such disorders. The program will be jointly sponsored by USD's School of Education and Office of Contmumg Education. Advance registration 1s requested.

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USD Concert - The Alcala Trio will perform . ·Wed. at 12:15 p.m. •in tbe French Parlor of Founders Hall. Mlnl-C'oncert - The Kuhlau Trio will perform · • rnuslc for three flutes Mon. at noon In the Beverly '. Sills Salon of the Civic Theatre, 20'l C St., San . Diego.